code_swarm is an interesting visualization of the commit history of a project. See http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/ for more info and examples from other projects.
I've used that visualization on the history of the compose* project and produced the videos listed below. Due to major reconstructing of the CVS repository a couple of years back the results might not be 100% correct. There are two videos: Requires XVid codec, ~38MB, best quality http://r.elmuerte.com/~elmuerte/trese/composestar-history.avi Requires Windows Media 9 codec, ~60MB, quality is a bet less http://r.elmuerte.com/~elmuerte/trese/composestar-history.wmv Every time a person commited a file his name will light up. The files are represented as dots and fly towards the users that touched them. Users and files will slowly fade out when there's no activity. In the lower left part a histogram of the files is shown, the lower right shows the date of the current image. Different file types have different colors. Red is used for source code (.java, .cs, etc), green is used for documents (this includes xml files which are also used for the build configuration), libraries are purple (.jar and .dll), images are yellow, files in the example directorys are light blue. All other files are grey. I haven't added comments to the movies yet for certain events. But here are some pointers. In the beginning of september 2006 the project swicthed to SVN and the StarLight project was started (till december 2006). Before that you might recognize the "integration weeks". From june 2007 there's a long silent period until september (no active developers). (the names are the sourceforge.net usernames) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Composestar-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/composestar-developers
